Generated by Rank Math SEO, this is an llms.txt file designed to help LLMs better understand and index this website. # Julie Broad: Founder of Book Launchers and #1 Overall Amazon Book Bestseller ## Sitemaps [XML Sitemap](https://juliebroad.com/sitemap_index.xml): Includes all crawlable and indexable pages. ## Posts - [Happy New Year … Now About Your Goals for 2016](https://juliebroad.com/goals-for-2016/) - [The Problem with SMART Goals](https://juliebroad.com/smart-goals/): When I was a young girl playing in the back yard of my parents 20 room small town motel, I dreamed about being an astronomer, a teacher, and a writer. I didn't dream of working ten hours a day to build someone else's business. - [Connected – The Secret to Being Happier, Losing Weight & Making More Money](https://juliebroad.com/connected-book/): I was in a deep sleep when my alarm went off at 5:45am. My first thought in my groggy state was "ugh ... what time do I have to leave to catch my flight?" - [How To Hire a Great Ghostwriter (Even if You Don’t Know a Damn Thing About Writing)](https://juliebroad.com/how-to-hire-a-ghostwriter/): Pop Quiz: What’s the most important search engine in the world? - [What Robert McKee’s Hollywood Storytelling Can Teach You about Marketing](https://juliebroad.com/robert-mckee-storytelling/): Sitting in the back of a large hotel conference room, I watched this white haired man shuffle up to the stage carrying a leather bag. He wore running shoes, dress pants, and a long sleeved blue button up collared shirt. - [What People Selling Time Management Tricks Don’t Want You to Know About Productivity](https://juliebroad.com/productivity/): It's Monday morning. - [The Only Marketing Strategy You Really Need](https://juliebroad.com/marketing-strategy/): Have you heard something like this lately? - [What You Should Know Before You Buy a Done-For-You Book Publishing Package](https://juliebroad.com/done-for-you-book-publishing/): "She had my order in the cart, but forgot to hit submit. Then, she went away on holidays and now it's too late." - [Stop Leaving Money on the Table: 3 Questions to Ask Before You Negotiate](https://juliebroad.com/questiont-to-ask-before-you-negotiate/): "I've got the opportunity to land my first full consulting package client. Can you read the email below to see if I am doing anything repellent here?" - [Are You Making this Big Email Mistake?](https://juliebroad.com/email-mistake/): As I got up to leave the poker table at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas last week, the older gentleman from Los Angeles who'd been sitting beside me for a few hours said, "Oh - the most honest person at the table is leaving so I think I will leave too." - [5 Lessons to Think Your Way to Success](https://juliebroad.com/think-your-way-to-success/): Imagine you're a singer. Your popularity is growing. You're not famous, but people are starting to know who you are. - [Brand Yourself like a Celebrity: 5 Things to Make Your Personal Brand Rock](https://juliebroad.com/personal-brand/):  “Research has demonstrated that a shocking percentage of viewers remember your commercial, but forget the name of your product. All too often they attribute your commercial to a competing brand.” ~ David Ogilvy in Ogilvy on Advertising - [What to Do When Someone Is Just Plain Wrong (or Makes a Big Mistake)](https://juliebroad.com/learn-from-mistakes/): "Most people, when directly confronted with proof that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously." ~ Carol Travis & Elliot Aronson, Mistakes were Made (But Not By Me). - [How to Free Your Mind and Your Life from Mediocrity](https://juliebroad.com/no-more-mediocrity/): “Make the right decisions, and you can expect to win about 60% of the time.” - [5 Self Publishing Mistakes That Kill Your Book Before You Start](https://juliebroad.com/5-self-publishing-mistakes-that-kill-your-book-before-you-start/): "By a show of hands - who has published a book?" - [What is an ISBN Number? (And How Do You Get One in Canada?)](https://juliebroad.com/what-is-an-isbn-number-and-how-do-you-get-one-in-canada/): So you're ready to self publish your book? If you're in Canada, there is some good news. The ISBN number (the International Standard Book Number ... you know that little number above the bar code on the back of a book?) is free. - [How to Find and Connect with Great People](https://juliebroad.com/connect-with-great-people/): It’s 1930. You’re sitting at a table in a darkly lit pub called the Eagle and Child in Oxford with a few friends. - [Who am I to make a difference?](https://juliebroad.com/who-am-i-to-make-a-difference/): Imagine this is your last day on earth. You can share one message with the people you care about before you leave. - [Double Your Productivity – How to Hire the Right Virtual Assistant](https://juliebroad.com/double-your-productivity-how-to-hire-the-right-virtual-assistant/): I had made a big mistake. - [7 Awkward Conversations People Will Never Have with You](https://juliebroad.com/7-awkward-conversations/): Sitting in the audience looking up at the man the MC just brought on stage, I gasped. - [5 Tips to Have Conversations that Sell](https://juliebroad.com/conversations-that-sell-webinar/): I don't follow basketball (I'm a prairie born Canadian - it's all about hockey in my household!), but I am a fan of Coach Wooden. - [Looking for the Perfect Sales Script to Boost Your Results?](https://juliebroad.com/sales-script/): "I don't pave the way for people. People pave the way for me." - [Are You Missing Sales That Are Right Under Your Nose?](https://juliebroad.com/missing-sales-right-nose/): It all seemed to be going well. Karen had just finished test driving the car and was chatting with the salesman. - [If All You’re Doing is Enjoying Yourself …](https://juliebroad.com/achievement/): My workout partner Breanne (aka Bremo) looked at the weight on my bar and said "You can do more than that." - [7 Time Sucking Mistakes that Don’t Get You the Results You Want](https://juliebroad.com/7-time-sucking-mistakes-dont-get-results-want/): Ever feel like there’s 176 things to do in a work day? And, when that’s done you still need time and energy left for your family, friends, and hobbies. Plus, there is always work to be done around the house, right? - [Why Your Follow-Up Sucks and Three Ways to Fix It](https://juliebroad.com/fix-your-follow-up/): It was midnight. I was happily sleeping when a loud snorting chuckle sound woke me up. I rolled over expecting my husband to be asleep having a crazy dream. He wasn't. He was up and reading something on his iPad. - [What Shonda Rhimes Can Teach You About Selling](https://juliebroad.com/shonda-rhimes-can-teach-about-selling/): I never meant to watch it. - [Can We Really Trust You? 5 Things You Are Doing That Make People Wonder …](https://juliebroad.com/can-we-really-trust-you/): "Do you want to make more money? Do you want to make big bucks? Let me hear you if you do." - [Welcome to Having Conversations that Sell](https://juliebroad.com/conversations-that-sell/): Growing up, my Dad would often quote Mark Twain jokingly and say "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." ## Pages - [FAQ](https://juliebroad.com/faq/) - [Cookies](https://juliebroad.com/cookies/) - [Privacy](https://juliebroad.com/privacy/) - [No Boring Books Method](https://juliebroad.com/no-boring-books-method/) - [Speaking](https://juliebroad.com/speaking/) - [Contact](https://juliebroad.com/contact/) - [About](https://juliebroad.com/about/) - [Books](https://juliebroad.com/books/) - [Media](https://juliebroad.com/media/) - [Home](https://juliebroad.com/)